Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
June 4, 1938 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 4, 1938 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Detroit Tigers 3, Boston Red Sox 5

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Rogell ss 5 0 2 0
Walker lf 4 0 0 0
Gehringer 2b 4 0 1 1
Greenberg 1b 4 0 0 0
York c 4 1 1 0
Fox rf 4 0 1 0
Laabs cf 4 1 2 0
Piet 3b 4 0 2 2
Bridges p 2 0 0 0
  Tebbetts ph 1 1 1 0
  Coffman p 0 0 0 0
  Ross ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 37 3 10 3
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Cramer cf 4 2 2 0
Nonnenkamp rf 3 0 1 1
Vosmik lf 3 1 1 0
Foxx 1b 4 2 3 4
Cronin ss 4 0 0 0
Higgins 3b 3 0 1 0
McNair 2b 3 0 0 0
Desautels c 3 0 1 0
Grove p 2 0 0 0
Totals 29 5 9 5
Detroit 000 000 0123100
Boston 301 010 00x591
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Bridges  L(1-3) 7.0 8 5 5 1 0
  Coffman   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
9
5
5
1
0
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Grove  W(9-1) 9.0 10 3 3 0 9
Totals
9.0
10
3
3
0
9

  E–Vosmik (1).  DP–Detroit 1. Rogell-Gehringer-Greenberg.  2B–Detroit Rogell (7), Boston Cramer (10).  HR–Boston Foxx 2 (13,1st inning off Bridges 2 on,3rd inning off Bridges 0 on).  Team LOB–7.  SH–Nonnenkamp (1); Grove (4).  Team–3.  CS–Higgins (3).  U–Bill Grieve, Bill Summers, John Quinn.  T–1:41.  A–9,700.
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